1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.